title: Incentives can boost productivity, revenues.
abstract: Monitoring documentation procedures closely, and providing a financial incentive for your physicians to improve their documentation practices, literally can save your hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are some keys to establishing such a program: Have coders review charts, determine what the doctor should have documented, and how much money was "left on the table." Provide this data to your physicians on a monthly basis, and show them how they compare to the rest of the department. Set up a compensation structure in which the doctors receive not only a base hourly rate, but a percentage of what is collected.
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D009042:Motivation